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Oberammergau: Germany’S 376-Year-Old Passion Play Before And After The Holocaust, Vatican Ii, And Ongoing Research Into Early Christianity, Anna Lisa Ohm
Headwaters
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A Translation Of Selected Short Stories By Helga M. Novak, Margaret Zenk
A Translation Of Selected Short Stories By Helga M. Novak, Margaret Zenk
Honors Theses, 1963-2015
This project is a translation of twenty short stories by Helga Novak, a contemporary author born in eastern Berlin. The stories were all written between 1965 and 1980. They are divided into four sections: Fish Factory, Carpet Weaving, Traveling, and Sojourn in a Crazy House. The first three sections consist of very short stories, approximately one page long, taken from Novak's collection called Geselliges Beisammensein (Social Gathering). The last section is made up of three longer stories, each about 10 pages long, taken from Aufenthalt in einem irren Haus (Sojourn in a Crazy House), which represent some of …
The Bridging Motif In The Short Stories Of Franz Kafka, Charlene Saber
The Bridging Motif In The Short Stories Of Franz Kafka, Charlene Saber
Honors Theses, 1963-2015
In analyzing the short stories "Forschungen eines Hundes," "Ein Bericht fŸr eine Akademie," and "Die BrŸcke," I have found characters who function as creators of new locations -- bridging characters. These figures bridge the gap between extremes and, hence, exist in a state of "inbetweenness." Furthermore, these characters are paradigmatic of the human condition, which also seems to synthesize rebellious tendencies and desires. There appears to be two distinct extremes in Franz Kafka's short stories: the nature Pole and the intellectual pole. The bridge figures in the three stories, as well as other characters in Kafka's works, seem stretched between …